January 22, 2015 - 3:10am
Yellowish looking bread
I am making basic white bread using a bread machine but it always has a yellowish colour rather than pure white. I have experimented with various brands of strong white flour but to no avail. Anyone else experience this problem?
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Home made bread is often yellowish - that's the natural colour of the flour. Very white bread like you get in the shops is produced by very intensive, fast mixing, which gives a fluffy texture, and also introduces a lot of air. The air changes the dough chemically, breaking down flavour compounds and pigments - so it ends up very white and very bland.
You can do this at home with a stand mixer, and it can be a fun experiment - I'm not sure how you'd do it with a bread maker, unless it had a special program for it.
The thing to remember is the yellow colour means tastier bread - the white colour means flavour has been lost. If I were you I'd learn to love the yellowness!
Edit to add: I'm assuming your recipe contains no eggs. If it does, they will make it really quite yellow, like brioche. In which case try a recipe without eggs.
I hope that helps.